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Latitude: 55.9349 / 55°56'5"N
Longitude: -3.1784 / 3°10'42"W
OS Eastings: 326480
OS Northings: 671938
OS Grid: NT264719
Mapcode National: GBR 8RN.P0
Mapcode Global: WH6ST.43R2
Plus Code: 9C7RWRMC+WJ
Entry Name: Garage, 20 Duncan Street, Edinburgh
Listing Name: 18 - 22 (Even Nos) Duncan Street, Including Duncan Street Garage
Listing Date: 25 March 1997
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 390905
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB44213
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Edinburgh, 20 Duncan Street, Garage
ID on this website: 200390905
Location: Edinburgh
County: Edinburgh
Town: Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Southside/Newington
Traditional County: Midlothian
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Circa 1870. 3 storey, 7 bay symmetrical Italianate tenement blocks flanking advanced central pend (garage). Cream sandstone ashlar. Base course; pilasters to advanced architraves to ground floor openings to tenements; bracketed cills to architraves to floors above; dividing band courses between floors; eaves course; cornice.
N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: Tenement Blocks: central round arched doorways; panelled doors; plate glass fanlights; single windows to 1st floor above; flanking round arched bipartite windows at ground; bipartite windows to 1st floor above; single windows to 2nd floor above. Garage: panelled stylized pilasters to segmental arched pend; timber gates; tripartite window to 2nd floor above; balustraded parapet with corniced dies.
Plate glass, timber sash and case windows. Grey slate roof; rendered and coped ridge stack.
INTERIOR: not seen 1996.
Unusual use of Italianate style in tenement design.
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